Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kevan David Jones (born 25 April 1964) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Durham since 2001. Jones was born in Nottinghamshire and is the son of a coal miner. He went to the comprehensive Portland School on Sparken Hill in Worksop. He attended Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) and the University of Southern Maine in the U.S., gaining a BA (Hons) in Government & Public Policy. Before becoming an MP, he was a Newcastle upon Tyne councillor from 1990 - March 2001 where he was Chairman of the Development Committee, and an elected political and legal officer of the GMB Union.